Pulliam Fellowship.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones,
awards)
The deadline for the Eugene C. Pulliam Fellowship for Editorial
Writing is July 1.
Offered by the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, the Pulliam Fellowship
enables a mid-career editorial writer from a . . .
Early-learning seminar.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones,
awards)(Conference notes)
The Hechinger Institute and NCEW are partnering to offer a
conference highlighting pre-kindergarten and early childhood education
issues.
The conference will be June 29-30 at Teachers College at . . .
Passage.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones, awards)(S. Gordon
Gapper member of National Conference of Editorial Writers, die
S. Gordon Gapper, an NCEW member since 1981, died January 22 in
Banning, California. He was 81.
A native of New Zealand, Gapper worked for thirty-two years at The
Flint Journal in Michigan, after . . .
The Kansas City Star.(Promotions)(Miriam Pepper promoted to vice
president of the editorial page)(Brief article)
Miriam Pepper, The Kansas City Star's editorial page editor,
was promoted to vice president, editorial page.
Pepper, who is NCEW's 2007 convention chair, joined The Star
in 1976 after brief . . .
The Roanake Times.(Promotions)(Dan Radmacher promoted to
editorial page editor)(Brief article)
Dan Radmacher was promoted to editorial page editor of The Roanoke
Times.
NCEW's website editor, Radmacher has served as interim editor
after Tommy Denton retired. He joined the Times in March . . .
A prescription to keep NCEW healthy and enhance its
vitality.(PRESIDENT'S LETTER: Straight talk from Neil
Heinen)(National Confe
This is one Boomer who has come to appreciate the value of an
annual physical, both for the reassurance of major problems fortunately
held at bay, and the reminder of vigilance and never-ending . . .
In memoriam: a tribute to Dave Gillespie.(In memoriam)
Our colleague David Gillespie, who died in Raleigh Sunday, March
26, at 84, was of a remarkable generation of Americans who went off to
fight a war and defeated a monstrous set of enemies. He came . . .
Revamped Foundation poised for expanded opportunity.(NCEW
FOUNDATION)(National Conference of Editorial Writers)
The NCEW Foundation has taken some significant steps in the past
couple of years, steps designed to make your Foundation truly
independent and more responsive to the needs of opinion . . .
How I learned to stop worrying and love layout: an editor
reinvents his pages.(SHOP TALK/INNOVATIONS)
So it turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Last year marked my thirtieth anniversary at the Gainesville Sun,
my twenty-third year as editorial page editor. And I figured I pretty
much . . .
A beautiful partnership: NCEW and Knight Center mark twenty-fifth
editorial writing seminar.(National Conference of Editorial Wr
The year was 1982. President Reagan was in the second year of his
first term, the world was still engaged in the Cold War, and this nation
was not yet two hundred years old. As editorial writers . . .
NCEW is goin' to Kansas City, 2007: get ready for debate,
jazz and barbecue.(National Conference of Editorial Writers)(Travel
na
Repeat after me: I'm goin' to Kansas City, Kansas City,
here I come ...
Well I might take a plane, I might take a train,
If I have to walk, I'm goin' there just the same.
Let the budgeting . . .
Melding the media: brokering opinion online in new media
environment.
Opportunities and threats provide the carrots and sticks for
effective strategic plans.
All this came together for me at NCEW last year.
First, the threat became palpable at the Pittsburgh . . .
Why the editorial page matters--a view from the academy Setting
stage for civic dialogue: editorial writers speak for
institutio
In over a decade teaching introductory American Government classes
at a small, regional public university one of the most frequently asked
questions from my students--apart from whether I will . . .
We don't endorse, and we like it that way: framing, not
dictating, the conversation.(SYMPOSIUM: Endorsements: Why
bother?)
"It's our duty." "It's a tradition."
"The public finds the endorsements useful."
Believe me, I know the arguments in favor of endorsing political
candidates and have echoed them many times. So . . .
Advice for an imperfect world: doing the voters' legwork:
everyone's a publisher now.(SYMPOSIUM: Endorsements: Why
bother?)
In a perfect world, editorial writers wouldn't need to endorse
political candidates. Every voting-age American would research the
background, ideology, and experience of the people seeking . . .
Making endorsements count: plan, promote, and publish
early.(MASTHEAD SYMPOSIUM)
It was two Mondays before the November 7 election and the editorial
writers at the San Jose Mercury News were high-fiving it. Moments
earlier, the daily email listing the Top 10 viewed stories . . .
Endorse? Of course, or not necessarily.(EDITOR'S
NOTE)(Editorial)
With the cacophony of other easily accessible opinion voices,
editorial pages increasingly have come into the crosshairs of critics,
who wonder who died and made us monarchs of opinion. The . . .
The Record.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones, awards)(Alfred
Doblin)(Brief article)
In related news, Alfred Doblin has been named assistant managing
editor/ editorial page editor for The Record, replacing Dick Benfield.
Prior to joining the Herald News of West Paterson, New . . .
After forty-two years with the North Jersey Media Group, Dick
Benfield retired in April.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, milestones,
After forty-two years with the North Jersey Media Group, Dick
Benfield retired in April.
The April 23 headline in The Record in Hackensack, New Jersey,
announcing Dick's retirement read: "The . . .
Tommy Denton stepped down as editorial page editor of The Roanoke
Times in Virginia on June 30.(MEMBER NEWS: Remembrances, miles
Tommy Denton stepped down as editorial page editor of The Roanoke
Times in Virginia on June 30. Denton, who joined the paper in 1998,
opted to take the summer off before returning to the paper . . .
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